Two tries by Sebastien Chabal helped France achieve a 87-10 victory over Namibia in Toulousse on sunday evening.

With a French crowd baying for blood if the home team didn't perform, the hosts came out firing and totally demolished a Namibian team that were
down to 14 men
after the 19th minute.

Chabal started this match in the second row and showed what a valuable asset he is to the team with his agility and awareness of space. He took some good lineout balls as well as bashed it up well.

The first of his two tries came when France were awarded a penalty close to the line, and some quick thinking from scrumhalf Jean-Baptiste Ellisalde put in a neat crosskick for Chabal to collect and fall over the line.

The second of his tries put the first one to shame. It came from a close to 60m penalty kick attempt from the Namibian fullback Loster. The kick fell short, and France returned the ball with interest, rapidly getting up to the halfway line and creating fast second phase ball.

After swinging it wide, the big caveman received the ball well inside his own half and took off, sniping through the tiniest of gaps and showing superb acceleration that I, for one, didn't know he possessed.

Leaving the Namibian's for dead and brushing off three would be tacklers, he charged over the line for what for me is already one of the best tries of the tournament.

i'm franch and i'm really proud of having a player like chabal ! he's a superpower . some people say that french is a running team and that they don't have any good chargers. Well now we have chabal!!!!

Against namibia the french showed something worth watching... In my opinion, the team changed because of elissalde and michalak... They are so much better than skrela and the other scrumhalf... (cant remember the name)By the way, nice pace for such a big man

how can anyone say that about ROGHes known the world over as one of the finest out-halfshes proven this many times with The 2005 lions tour The 2006 Heinekin CupMan of the tournament 2007 6 nationsand most likely this Heinekin cup too